DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Simple AI (Sohu) records 45,303 monthly visits with -5.3% growth and Freemium pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
All-in-one AI for drawing, writing and image editing
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | ai.sohu.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 45.3K (45,303) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -2.51K (-5.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇨🇳 China (96.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 18.86K |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 3.9 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Leverages a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (49B active parameters out of 1.6T on V4-Pro) to process up to 1 million tokens with minimal latency and memory overhead.
Pioneered by DeepSeek-R1 and integrated into V3.2 and V4 thinking modes, exposing step-by-step self-verification for complex math, logic, and code debugging.
Drops input token costs to $0.003/1M on Flash and $0.022/1M on V4-Pro for cache hits, with 50% lower rates during off-peak UTC hours.
Provides free access at chat.deepseek.com and on iOS/Android with document uploads, reasoning mode, and web search without paywalling core models.
All-in-one AI for drawing, writing and image editing
Generate images from text prompts or transform existing images, covering portraits, avatars, product shots and design concepts.
Produce marketing copy, social captions, articles and creative writing to support content and campaign workflows.
Tools for smart cutout, background replacement, HD restoration, watermark removal, object removal and old-photo repair directly in the browser.
Ready-made templates for e-commerce imagery, logo design, ID photos and social media, plus a searchable material library.
Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
Offers an enormous context window and deep Google ecosystem integration, but feels less specialized for pure reasoning tasks.
Offers an enormous context window and deep Google ecosystem integration, but feels less specialized for pure reasoning tasks.
Delivers superior long-form coding artifacts and nuanced writing, but lacks DeepSeek's specialized open-weight reasoning models.
Delivers superior long-form coding artifacts and nuanced writing, but lacks DeepSeek's specialized open-weight reasoning models.
Features real-time X social data integration, but is less cost-effective for dedicated developer coding workflows.
Features real-time X social data integration, but is less cost-effective for dedicated developer coding workflows.
SpecialistReal-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
SpecialistReal-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
SpecialistInstant AI background removal for high-resolution portraits, e-commerce product catalogs, and automated API workflows.
SpecialistInstant AI background removal for high-resolution portraits, e-commerce product catalogs, and automated API workflows.
Free / Open-sourceProvides comparable open-weight foundation models and multilingual performance, but requires self-hosting or third-party inference setup.
Free / Open-sourceProvides comparable open-weight foundation models and multilingual performance, but requires self-hosting or third-party inference setup.
SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software
SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software
SpecialistExcels at ultra-long document analysis and research, but lacks the same level of open-weight developer community support.
SpecialistExcels at ultra-long document analysis and research, but lacks the same level of open-weight developer community support.
Specialist面向电商的 AI 视觉编辑器，从商品图到视频广告
SpecialistAll-in-one AI creative studio for images, video, and design
SpecialistAll-in-one AI creative studio for images, video, and design
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.
